Civil War Timeline

Timeline created by mattcragan in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
02/14/1820	Missouri Compromise	Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In 1854 it was repealed by the Kansas/Nebraska act.
08/18/1846	Wilmot Proviso	Tried to stop spread of slavery into the territories. Never passed in house o r congress.
01/29/1850	Compromise of 1850	Califorina was enterd as a free state. New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery. In other words, the people would pick whether the states would be free or slave.
03/20/1852	Uncle Toms Cabin	Book written by Reverend Josiah Henson. Henson worked with the underground railroad.
05/30/1854	Kansas/ Nebraska Act	Allowed the states to decide if they were pro slavery or against slavery.
10/16/1859	John Browns Raid	Led a group of 21 men from Maryland to Virginia. Their immediate objective was the capture of the cache of weapons stored at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown's ultimate goal was to destroy the slave system of the South.